Flash PCI nVIDIA GeForce FX5500

I plan to upgrade the GPU in a Windows Computer I have (like the G3 B&W It's PCI Only)

The current GPU In it is a nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500. Bought it YEARS ago to upgrade a previous PCI-Only desktop. Since I will be getting a better GPU for this computer, I wanted to flash this 5500 to work on my MDD. What kind of Mac ROM would I use?

The GPU I'll be upgrading to is a JATON Video-339PCI-HLX Radeon HD 5450 512MB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI HDCP Video Card.

How does this compare to the 5500 or a PCI 6200?

If it matters any, This computer is a stock HP Pavillion a824n. It also has a SoundBlaster Audigy SE (Probably not needed but I have 3 of them so I figured I might as well use one of 'em).

weckart said:

I have the 5450 PCIe in one of my Microservers. It is, along with the 6450, about the best fanless card you can squeeze in without overloading the 25W slot limit. Fine for modest gaming and will handle HD video. It is slightly better in that respect than the similar GT210, which itself is comparable to the 320M you get in older Macbook Airs and Mac Minis.

With the additional restriction of the PCI bus on yours just don't expect fireworks.

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I am not expecting it to be like a AGP or PCIe. Basically all i want to know is if itll play Flash Video and basic games (BigFish, PopCap kind of games) Without lag the 5500 has.

MagicBoy said:

It's not going to help with flash video.

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Probably the fact its running 2GB RAM with 'Shitdows" 8.1 will maxing the RAM out at 4GB so anything in that regard?

weckart said:

Flash decoding is pretty much CPU based. H.264 etc can be offloaded to the GPU but with Flash all the rendering and scaling etc is shoved onto the CPU.

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It has a Socket 775 Intel Pentium 4 @3.0GHz its a 32 bit CPU (must be one of the 1st P4s for Socket 775 because the computer takes DDR RAM